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China: rising industrial production, crude steel production and coke production
In the January-March period of this year, the value-added industrial output of the ferrous metal smelting and rolling sector in China recorded a 5.9% year-on-year increase, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). In March alone, the value-added...
Copper: environmental permit approved for Anglo American’s Los Bronces project
On Monday, the government's committee of ministers approved an environmental permit for a $3 billion extension of Anglo American's Los Bronces project in Chile. Environmentalists and social groups have criticised the initiative located in the Andes Mountains near the...
Evraz will not make interest payment on April bond
Steelmaker Evraz plc, which is based in the United Kingdom but part of a Russian conglomerate, has announced that it will not make what it calls a regular interest payment on a bond due in April. The company describes the payment as due on a 5.25 percent Eurobond 2024...
Metals: Aurubis chooses to double recycling capacity at Georgia plant
An equipment and technology contract signed by Hamburg, Germany-based Aurubis AG provides further details on the metals production and recycling company's intention to double the initially announced capacity of its scrap-fuelled copper refinery in Richmond, Georgia....